THE HUMANS

About the show

When professor Andrew Martin has a mathematical breakthrough, an outsider from another world arrives to intervene before this discovery wreaks havoc on the universe. By forcing his way into Andrew’s life, alongside the professor’s wife and teenage son, this mysterious being confronts mankind’s wild contradictions, and questions what it means to love, to belong, and to be human. Making its world premiere at the Theatre Royal Haymarket is a new play from Jack Thorne (A Christmas Carol, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), based on the novel by international bestselling author Matt Haig. Matt Smith stars in this funny and thrilling new play that lays bare the beautiful absurdity of being alive.